Moral Development and Physical Education - Sport

George Balasas, Miltiadis Proios, George Doganis, & Dimitris Balasas

Department of Physical Education & Sport Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract

Moral development is actually a value system where the decisions concerning what is “right” and “wrong”, as well as what is “good” and “bad”, are based. Moral development follows a course of evolution and as a result knowledge of the procedures of moral development is very important for the children’ s moral education, because morality is in fact learned and not automatically acquired. So, it is obvious how important the need for developing intervention programmes for the children’ s moral education is. This need becomes even more obvious by the fact that the moral development of children is one of main goals of physical education. The field of physical education is an environment that the children’ s moral development can be attained.

Key words: moral development, moral reasoning, physical education, sport.